Tags: ideajam lotus connections integration sharepoint iwidget rss
We just published a document which reviews the integration points that IdeaJam has with Lotus Connections. Lotus Connections can surface IdeaJam ideas using the IdeaJam Lotus Connections iWidget, a vast array of RSS feeds and via the Lotus Connections Business Card. These same features are also available for Microsoft Sharepoint.

More on Elguji's Documents page >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:44:01 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: books elguji ideajam
Today in the post we received a copy of Michael Sampsons new book "User Adoption Strategies" and were happy to see a section on Elguji's IdeaJam idea and innovation management software. This marks the second time IdeaJam has been covered in a published book. The first was in "Web 2.0 and Social Networking in the Enterprise" by Joey Bernal.

Time to go read Michaels books. Stay tuned for our review.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:31:57 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: ideajam elguji case studies reviews notesappstore
You can find some reviews of our IdeaJam product on the NotesAppStore.com. These reviews are from Elguji customers who run IdeaJam on their own Domino servers as well as from SaaS (with service) customers. Additionally you can read several case studies about IdeaJam here.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:22:40 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: ibm beacon awards elguji ideajam
On Thursday Elguji received an email from Rich Hume, General Manager, IBM Global Business Partners & Mid-Market letting us know that our IdeaJam product was named as a Finalist in the prestigious 2010 IBM Beacon Awards:

Everyday, IBM Business Partners around the world strive to provide innovative solutions based on IBM products and services. The high number of Beacon Award submissions received this year significantly increased the level of competition. Today, I would like to extend my congratulations to you as being selected as a 2010 Finalist for the Outstanding Innovative Collaboration Solution Award sponsored by Lotus Software. Your nomination was among the best of hundreds received and sets the standard for business excellence, creativeness and client success.

We would like to recognize you and all of the winners and finalists at this year's IBM Beacon Awards Recognition Event which will be held in Rome, Italy, May 18-20, in conjunction with IBM's Information on Demand Conference 2010. Award winners and finalists are invited to an exclusive Beacon Award Leadership Meeting, a series of exclusive, high-level education sessions, 1:1 meeting opportunities and special recognition events. So save the date and book your arrangements now! Attached is a complete description of the recognition event, finalist benefits, and directions on how to register.

Thank you for submitting your nomination to this year’s Beacon Award competition. I look forward to meeting you in Rome.

Rich Hume
General Manager
IBM Global Business Partners & Mid-Market

Elguji is extremely honored to have received this recognition from IBM. Elguji Software is not a big, anonymous corporate entity. We are a small team of dedicated and talented individuals united by the common passion of creating great software and providing our customers with first class customer support.

To see a list of all of Elguji's awards please visit this page.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 02:19:00 PM Location London, England | Permalink | Comments (6)

Tags: case study ideajam
We have just posted a new IdeaJam Case Study about Kelly Services use of IdeaJam:

There are thousands of unique staffing firms in the U.S. Differentiating yourself can be a daunting task. As a global workforce solutions company with over 8,000 full time employees and 700,000 contract employees, Kelly needed a global platform to generate ideas on improving the “experience” of their key stakeholders: customers, candidates, and workforce suppliers.

...

Kelly invested in an on-line ideas & innovation management technology and benchmarked other companies on best practices in managing collaboration. Executive sponsors were enlisted to review and prioritize ideas in five key areas: customer experience; candidate experience; supplier experience; employee experience and cost savings. Named “IdeaHub”, the platform was launched on the company’s global intranet in December 2008. Kelly executives also inserted their own ideas to generate conversation and drive adoption. A team of moderators monitored and escalated ideas that generated over 100 votes and kept the company apprised of ideas that were being implemented. Executive messages also frequently included a link to IdeaHub so that the employees could immediately react by posting their ideas.

Read the Case Study (PDF) >

Elguji's IdeaJam Case Studies

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:53:12 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: 1.8 ideajam api
Coming in the Summer '10 release of IdeaJam (due in May/June) we will be introducing the IdeaJam API. The API will be available via JSON and Web Services. Using the API customers will be able to integrate IdeaJam into mobile applications, intranet applications, widgets, and other Lotus products including Websphere Portal, Lotus Connections and many others. You may remember this blog entry where we talked about our customers developing some really cool IQJam integration points with iPhone, Android and Microsoft Office.

Based on customer feedback let me introduce you to the IdeaJam API methods:

addComment(ideaId, comment, securityKey)

addIdea (idea, securityKey)

findIdeaById(ideaId, securityKey)

getIdeaSpaces(securityKey)

getRecentComments(ideaSpace, securityKey)

getRecentIdeas(ideaSpace, count, securityKey)

getRecentIdeasByAuthor(author, count, securityKey)

getRecentIdeasByTag(tag, ideaSpace, count, securityKey)

getStats(securityKey, numberOfIdeas, numberOfComments, numberOfVotes securitykey)

getTopInnovators(securityKey)

getTopTags(securityKey)

getVotesForIdea(ideaId, securityKey)

getWhatsHot(timeFrame, securityKey)

searchIdeas(search, securityKey)

The API is still under development and if you have any feedback I am sure the development team would love to hear from you.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:44:36 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: ideajam iqjam linkjam brochures
We have updated some of our product brochures and here they are:

IdeaJam - Idea and Innovation Management Software

- Top 10 Reasons You Need IdeaJam (PDF)

- Notable IdeaJam Features (PDF)

- IdeaJam Product Brochure (PDF)

- Improve the Performance of Your Enterprise with Social Networking Software (PDF)

IQJam - Question and Answer Community Software for the Enterprise

- IQJam Product Brochure (PDF)

- IQJam Mobile for Apple iPhone and Google Android Product Brochure (PDF)

LinkJam - Social Bookmarking Software for the Enterprise

- LinkJam Product Brochure (PDF)

- LinkJam Notable Features (PDF)

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:31:53 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: ideas ideajam enterprise 2.0
Hutch Carpenter the VP of Product for Spigit (a competitor of Elguji's) has a great blog entry about how important ideas are in the context of Enterprise 2.0:

If Enterprise 2.0 rests on delivering value through collaborative, emergent and social means, ideas are the top basis for leveraging these qualities.

...

There are many types of content and activities – social objects – that are part of a social computing initiative. I’d argue ideas, for a host of reasons, should be considered top amongst those social objects.

Read Hutch Carpenter's blog entry "Why Ideas Are Core to Enterprise 2.0 >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 08:02:41 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: app ideajam solutions catalog
IdeaJam is now included in the new Lotus Solutions Catalog and is also a "featured" on the catalog home page:



IQJam and LinkJam should be included in the catalog shortly.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:36:19 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: ideajam elguji uk
Elguji is now working with RSVP Consulting (www.rsvp-consulting.com) to support the development of service strategies within the UK Public Sector. We are bringing together strategy, change and innovation consultancy with Elguji's IdeaJam™ idea and innovation management software offering - to deliver "more for less" to the UK Public Sector.

This partnership is already paying dividends, over the last 3 months we have supported the development of an information strategy for two Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) within the UK's National Health Service (NHS). While the use of on-line engagement is relatively new within the public sector, this work engaged 150 management and clinical stakeholders, across multiple commissioning and provider organisations, to develop the strategy without the need for multiple workshops and meetings. This process enabled the PCTs to complete development work that would normally take months - within 8 weeks - more for less!

Our work with RSVP will continue to support Innovative consulting propositions within the U.K. public sector - creating an environment where the public sector can collaborate to make informed decisions that support future service efficiencies.

We're happy to be able to recommend RSVP Consulting if your organization is interested in using IdeaJam™ to develop new strategies or deliver innovation enabled business change, collaborating across boundaries and with partners - the team of Elguji and RSVP Consulting can help you.

Please contact:

Gayle Elgort - Elguji

Robin Vickers - RSVP 

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:00:00 PM Location London, UK | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: iqjam ideajam elguji
Since it's release in November 2009, the sales of our IQJam product are exceeding our pre-launch forecasts. Customers have been quick to deploy IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 servers and, with those deployments we are seeing our existing customer base, as well as many new customers purchasing and deploying IQJam. One of the key selling features of IQJam has been it's application programming interface (API). Customers have been linking IQJam to their server and support desk applications, Microsoft Office, to their company intranets as well as building some really slick Adobe Flex/Air applications.

In version IQJam V1.1 we are addressing the top two feature requests that customers have asked for - those being Lotus Connections integration and adding attachments to answers. Elguji will be demonstrating IQJam V1.1 at Lotusphere 2010 at booth no. 622.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 07:06:59 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: awards ideajam elguji
On Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Elguji's IdeaJam Idea and Innovation Management software was named as a finalist in the following two 2010 Lotus Award categories:

Best TOTAL Lotus Collaboration Solution

Best End-User Solution

For a complete list of industry awards Elguji has won you can look here.

Congratulations to all of the 2010 Lotus Award Winners and Finalists.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 04:06:53 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: api iqjam ideajam
Earlier today we blogged about surfacing IQJam question in IdeaJam and below is an example of the JavaScript code customers can place into their IdeaJam Control Panel to have IQJam questions appear with inside of IdeaJam. Customers will need to include their IQJam API Security Key for the "securitykey". This is sample code and will be included with IdeaJam V1.7.

<script language="Javascript">

function getRelatedQuestions(){
       try {
       var url = "/iqjam/iqjam.nsf/jsonSearchQuestions";
       var myRequest = new XHR( {
                       method: 'post',
                       onFailure: function (data) {
                               //alert("There was an error: " + data.responseText);
                       },
                       onSuccess: function (data){
                               data = eval("(" + data + ")");
                               if (data.questions.length > 0){
                                       var html = "<b>Possibly Related Questions in IQJam</b><br  /><br /><ul>";
                                       for (var i=0; i<data.questions.length; i++){
                                               html += "<li><a style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"" + data.questions[i].url + "\" target=\"newwin\">" + data.questions[i].title + "</a></li>";
                                               if (i > 3)
                                                       break;
                                       }
                                       $("relatedquestions").innerHTML = html + "<ul/>";
                                       $("relatedquestions").style.display = "block";
                               }
                       }
               }
       );
       var searchin = document.title;
       searchin = searchin.split(" - ")[1];
       searchin = searchin.split(" ");
       var search = "";
       for (var i=0; i<searchin.length; i++){
               if (searchin[i].length > 2){
                       if(search != "")
                               search += " OR ";
                       search += searchin[i];
               }
       }
       var data = "securitykey=APIKeyOnYourUserProfile&search=" + search;
       myRequest.send(url, data);
       }catch(e){}
}

window.onDomReady(getRelatedQuestions);
</script>
<div id="relatedquestions" style="display: none; padding: 10px; font-size: 0.9em; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 4px; margin-bottom: 5px;"></div>

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:08:13 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: json ideajam iqjam api
With a few lines of Javascript, customers can easily add IQJam functionality to any website using the IQJam API. Below you will see that questions from IQJam are being surfaced within an IdeaJam idea. Very cool stuff and even more cool stuff coming soon. You can see this functionality live in The IBM Lotus Community IdeaJam right now.



To see how you can integrate IQJam with Microsoft Office look here.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:54:57 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: ideajam iqjam linkjam taskjam
The following are links to the product documenation for IdeaJam, IQJam, LinkJam and TaskJam:

IdeaJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

IQJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

LinkJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

TaskJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:50:08 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: openntf ideajam iqjam taskjam
Part of Elguji's company strategy to help people developers learn more about IBM Lotus XPages development and to create brand awareness for Elguji included developing an open source application called TaskJam. With the thousands of TaskJam downloads have come inquiry after inquiry about other products - most of them leading to sales of IdeaJam, LinkJam and IQJam. How do we know this? Well people tell us! Additionally, we have acquired a cadre of XPages development work and consulting services as well.

While Elguji is not the first company in the Lotus ISV/BP world to offer open source or free software to help drive sales of commercial software, we certainly can attest to it's success as a tool to help drive sales of our other products and services. We encourage other Lotus ISV's to follow suite as you can almost be guaranteed that it will help you drive sales and increase brand recognition.

Some of you may be asking when TaskJam will make into the OpenNTF GPL Catalog and we can answer with "we are working hard on making that happen".

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:57:04 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:09:48 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: ideajam case study
A few days ago we blogged about the Lotus Knows Ad Campaign Case Study and, now we are happy to share the Case Study for the United States Department of Agriculture and how they used Elguji's IdeaJam product.

During the economic downturn of 2008 President Obama challenged all US Government employees to make cost saving suggestions for the annual US Budget process. This was part of a larger effort to ensure that the US Government agencies invested taxpayer dollars in programs and initiatives that have proven records of success and fix or end programs that do not. The USDA needed to reach out to all of it's employees to find ways to reduce wasteful spending.

View the case study (PDF) >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:36:38 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: ideajam case study
Elguji has been witnessing company after company innovating with our products and, in particular IdeaJam. We have put together a series of case studies that are available on our web site. The first one we want to share with you is the Lotus Knows IdeaJam that took place in August 2009. Putting together public case studies is also a requirement for IBM Business Partners participating in the Business Partner Advisory Council which Elguji is a member of.

View the case study (PDF) >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:17:01 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: ideajam book elguji


Joey Bernal's book "Web 2.0 and Social Networking for the Enterprise: Guidelines and Examples for Implementation and Management Within Your Organization" from IBM Press is out and covers all things Web 2.0 and Social Netowrking from Lotus and includes Elguji's IdeaJam idea and innovation management software. A quick review of the book reveals that IdeaJam is one of the only third party applications included. Here is the description of the book from Amazon.com:

This book provides hands-on, start-to-finish guidance for business and IT decision-makers who want to drive value from Web 2.0 and social networking technologies. IBM expert Joey Bernal systematically identifies business functions and innovations these technologies can enhance and presents best-practice patterns for using them in both internal- and external-facing applications. Drawing on the immense experience of IBM and its customers, Bernal addresses both the business and technical issues enterprises must manage to succeed. He offers insights and case studies covering multiple technologies, including AJAX, REST, Atom/RSS, enterprise taxonomies, tagging, folksonomies, portals, mashups, blogs, wikis, and more. He also presents practical guidance for building robust, secure, collaborative applications by using applications and services from multiple sources with powerful tools such as WebSphere® Portal, Lotus® Connections, and IBM Mashup Center.

IdeaJam is covered on pages 267-269.

Buy the book on Amazon.com here >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 03:56:36 PM Location Portland, Oregon | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: web design ideajam elguji
One of our Canadian customers in the financial services industry works with a web design and communications agency in Canada called iStudio. This agency is responsible for all of their web design work. When this company purchased IdeaJam they needed to customize it to match their corporate branding guidelines as well as the needs of the business unit interested in using IdeaJam.

Using the native out-of-the-box functionality of IdeaJam, iStudio was able to make the customers IdeaJam look exactly the way the customer wanted it to look. Mike from iStudio recently blogged about how they used the language file to add a user agreement plugin to the login panel without touching the underlying Notes/Domino design.

Adding a user agreement JavaScript plugin to IdeaJam

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:35:12 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: iqjam products elguji ideajam
Elguji Software is very pleased to announce that IQJam, our question and answer community social networking software is now available for purchase. IQJam has been specifically built for IBM's Lotus Domino 8.5.1. Customer demand for an enterprise class question and answer system is the primary driver for Elguji developing IQJam. IQJam customers can also expect the same world-class customer service and support that they are accustomed to with Elguji.

The demo schedule is practically booked solid so, if your company is interested in seeing a 30 minute demo please contact our Sales group.

We would also like to thank the many customers who have participated in the beta program as well as the community members who helped test on the IQJam.net site.

To learn more about IQJam please visit http://elguji.com/iqjam.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:43:42 AM Location London, UK | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: iqjam ideajam
IQJam.net Beta Launches

Elguji Software is happy to announce that their forthcoming IQJam question and answer community social networking software is now available for beta testing at http://iqjam.net. IQJam has been specifically built for IBM's forthcoming Domino 8.5.1. Customer demand for an enterprise based question and answer system is the primary driver for Elguji developing the product.

Users can login to IQJam using their IdeaJam.net username and password. An IdeaSpace for IQJam has been setup on the IdeaJam.net site for beta testers to enter their ideas on how to improve IQJam. Additionally, testers are encouraged to use the Feedback link at the bottom of every page to notify Elguji of any problems or errors they run into.

IQSpaces and Sub IQSpaces for Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections, Lotus Symphony, Lotus Quickr, OpenNTF, Domino Development, Lotusphere, Domino Administration, IdeaJam, IQJam, LinkJam and TaskJam have are available.

The JSON and Web Services API is also available for testing. To learn more about the IQJam API visit the Developers link on IQJam.net. We'll be releasing more documentation about the APIs over the coming days and weeks, but if you have any questions, please just drop us a line using the Feedback form.

All of the administration and configuration for IQJam is browser or Lotus Notes Client based which allows the administrator to choose how they want to run the site.

Here are some screenshots of IQJam:



To learn more about IQJam please visit http://elguji.com/iqjam.

Disclaimer: IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 is prerelease code and there are no guarantees from IBM that the functionality presented will be in the final shipping product.

IdeaJam Fall '09 to be Released

IdeaJam Fall '09 will be available for customers on software maintenance starting on September 26th. This release includes the ability to "Follow or Unfollow" IdeaSpaces (email alerts), the Top Innovators leaderboard, integration of the Dashboard with a users Profile, the ability to navigate back into a view where you left off and much more.
The full list of new features:

- IdeaJam XPages version upgraded to run on Domino 8.5.1 only
- Custom HTML Header in Control Panel
- @CommentBody@ can be used to insert the comment body for new comment notifications that get sent out by the IdeaJam
- Improved navigation on Advanced Search, Favorite Ideas and What's Hot Screens
- A tooltip now appears when hovering over the Favorite stars.
- It is now possible to configure 5 extra custom fields on the user profile. User Profile and Dashboard have been merged
- New Top Innovators function from the header menu.
- Improved navigation so that the last view position you were in is remembered when clicking the "Back to All Ideas" button
- Idea Counts Added to the IdeaSpace navigation combo box
- A new "Follow IdeaSpace" function is now available
- The IdeaSpace can now be selected for the Lotus Connections iWidget

We're also continuing our aim to deliver high quality software and so several bugs and inconsistencies reported by customers have been addressed:

- Fixed language variables bug when withdrawing votes.
- Fixed language variables bug when viewing a person's ideas on their profile.
- Removed quick login box from Registration page to avoid confusion
- Fixed security of reg_userlookup agent to allow registrations in a secure IdeaJam database
- Fixed a bug where the creator of an idea wasn't notified of new comments on their idea in certain circumstances
- Fixed a bug with high number ASCII characters in IdeaSpace names in the Statistics Flash charts
- Removed Archived comments from live views
- Fixed display of Archived Questions in the Dashboard views
- Fixed a potential XSS vector on the Search Results screen
- Fixed an error in Safari where Ideas could be submitted without passing validation
- Fixed a problem where a URL edited with the Plain Text Idea form broke the link
- Unvoted will now only show Open and In Progress Ideas
- Fixed a bug where Withdrawn, Rejected and Completed Ideas were not being archived
- Fixed a bug with Quick Login in IE6 when logging in from inside an Idea

You can see IdeaJam Fall '09 in action at http://ideajam.net.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 02:00:14 PM Location London | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: awards beacon ibm ideajam
Media Contact
Gayle Elgort
+1 (360) 450-5022
gayle.elgort@elguji.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

IBM Recognizes Elguji Software, LLC for Outstanding Achievements in Business and Technology Excellence

VANCOUVER, WA – JUNE 9, 2009 – Elguji Software, LLC was named winner of the award for Innovative Collaboration Solution with Lotus® Software in the 2009 IBM Beacon Awards competition. Elguji’s IdeaJam software was awarded this prestigious award for delivering outstanding value and innovative approaches to helping clients address unique business challenges.

“We are very proud to have won an IBM Beacon Award this year,” says Gayle Elgort, President of Elguji Software. "We are thrilled to see more and more companies around the globe using our idea management and innovation software to change the way they do business - all of this in a tough economic environment.”

The IBM Beacon Awards are an integral part of IBM’s PartnerWorld program, which provides industry recognition, increased visibility and promotional opportunities to IBM global Business Partners.  Members of IBM PartnerWorld benefit from global marketing and technical enablement initiatives to drive new revenue and market opportunities through the delivery of innovative business solutions.  

“We use IdeaJam as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to support online collaborative events for our clients." says Kate Morrison, Principal, Vulture Street Innovation Software & Services, Brisbane, Australia. "The well-thought-out design of IdeaJam means we can use it to facilitate idea generation, voting and discussion for groups ranging from hands-on engineers to arts and humanities scholars. It really is a flexible and powerful tool for groups of any kind, and the Elguji team provide an excellent level of customer service and support.”

The IBM Beacon Awards recognize excellence in the development and delivery of solutions and services that Business Partners deliver to clients around the world.  More than 340 nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts and IBM executives, who selected winners and finalists in the 22 award categories.

"IBM is dedicated to helping our global Business Partners deliver innovative solutions that enable our joint clients transform their business operations," said Rich Hume, general manager, IBM Global Business Partner Organization.  "Elguji was recognized in the Innovative Collaboration Solution with Lotus® Software category based on their technology leadership and commitment to delivering customer value.  This award is a testament to their commitment to delivering on IBM's smarter planet vision."

For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including descriptions of the winning entries and details about the finalists, please visit http://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/2009_awards.html.

To learn more about IBM PartnerWorld, a comprehensive program that offers marketing and sales resources, training, certification and technical support to help create new revenue and market opportunities for IBM Business Partners, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld.

About Elguji Software, LLC

Elguji Software, LLC, is a member of IBM PartnerWorld located in Vancouver, Washington, USA. Elguji specializes in Web 2.0 and social networking software development. Visit http://www.elguji.com for more information.

With Elguji Software's IdeaJam, customers can:

- Collect ideas from employees on cutting costs, new products/services and new work processes
- Solicit feedback and suggestions from employees, customers and partners
- Run innovation contests and competitions
- Gather and manage feedback on new product features and services
- Use the power of "crowd sourcing" to rank ideas and allow the best ideas to rise to the top
- Solicit immediate input from employees at any level and from any organization quickly and easily

IBM and Lotus are trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. IdeaJam is a trademark of Elguji Software, LLC.

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Back on February 25, 2009 Roland posted an idea on IdeaJam.net where he suggested the following:

I fully admit that when I go to IdeaJam, sure I'll vote on some ideas and make comments, but what I am really interested in is what is happening with MY ideas. I want to know what new comments were posted on my ideas and which of my ideas are hot or not so hot since since last time I logged in. Bruce and company most likey have their own private admin views for this. Right? This will save us the time of having to click on all our ideas to see if any of the comments are new. Then we can spend less time being self-centered and more time being altruistic and contribute to the community.

Well, in response to Roland's idea and for those of you who voted for it here is what we have created:


The top section will list your ideas, the number of votes, comments and the last activity date. If you hover over the title of an idea you will see a pop-up box which contains the last person who either voted or commented on your idea. The "Suggested Ideas" section will show you ideas that you may be interested in. We have developed an algorithm that suggests ideas based on your voting, commenting and tagging habbits.

Spring '09 (V1.5) will be IdeaJam's fourth upgrade since it's launch in March 2008. All customers on software maintenance will be entitled to Spring '09.

We will be pushing this build to the IdeaJam.net sometime in the next few days.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:38:37 AM Location The Internet | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: lotusphere award ideajam
Yesterday during the Lotusphere 2009 Opening General Session Lotus General Manager announced that Elguji was awarded the "2009 CTO Innovation Award" for IdeaJam. Bob also announced that IdeaJam was also a finalist for the "2009 Best in Showcase".

"The CTO Award recognizes those visionary IBM Business Partners who are leading the technology charge by exploiting Lotus' and WebSphere Portals latest capabilities in innovative, leading-edge, and exciting new ways. These ground-breaking solutions are positioned to be drivers in tomorrow's new markets, fostering innovation and at an ingenuity level that stands out above their peers. Special consideration will be given to first-time nominees."

Congratulations to Gayle Elgort and Matt White for working so hard to make IdeaJam what it is.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:43:28 AM Location Orlando, FL | Permalink | Comments (6)

Tags: ideajam elguji lotusphere award
At Business Development Day Elguji was awarded the "Breakout Technology Award" for IdeaJam:

"This Award will be presented to an IBM Business Partner who offers a solution that extends the software user experience by leveraging new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus® and IBM WebSphere® Portal portfolio. These technologies must be new since Lotusphere® 2008, such as XPages, Live Text, Composite Application integration with the Sidebar, and the Portal Web 2.0 client. They provide IBM Business Partners and customers with the capability to integrate and blend heterogeneous applications and data in the context of the end user's role, transforming solutions into a single seamless work environment that boosts end user and organizational effectiveness.

Submissions for this Award should be solutions that leverage these new technologies to extend business application functionality based on contexts defined by end consumer requirements. Entries will be judged based on the overall business value they demonstrate, the extent to which these solutions leverage the technologies, and the ability to demonstrate how these enhancements boost end user and organizational effectiveness.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 04:46:18 AM Location Orlando, FL | Permalink | Comments (4)

Tags: ideajam winter09
With Elguji's commitment to provide quarterly maintenance releases for our products we are happy to announce some of the features that will be available in the Winter '09 release of IdeaJam which will be available in the Lotusphere 2009 time frame. All of the new features in this release have come from our customers. As we like to say "we use our product to build and enhance our product".

1. IBM Lotus Domino XPages Support - For customers running the forthcoming release of IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 they can choose to run IdeaJam using XPages or classic Domino HTTP. Both ship in a single NTF.


2. Advanced Search - Search by IdeaSpace, sub-IdeaSpace search, dates, tags and more


3. Reporting - Export search results to Excel, CSV or XML


4. Web Administration - manage, configure and customize your IdeaJam from a web browser


5. Archiving - Rules based archiving allows you to have one or more rules that determine when and which ideas get archived


6. Delete Ideas from the Web - IdeaJam administrators can now delete ideas from the web


7. Custom IdeaSpace and System Messages - You can now provide custom text messages that appear below IdeaSpace names to assist users. These messages can be easily dismissed by the user. System administrators can create new messages where they have the option to force them to re-display to users who have dismissed them.


8. Improved Tag Clouds - Tag clouds now appear on all pages. The XPages version tag cloud will show tags on an IdeaSpace by IdeaSpace basis.

Learn more about IdeaJam >

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Have a look at this 00:02:06 video and tell us what you think.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 02:58:24 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: ideajam evaluation
I bet you didn't know that your company can get a free 30 day on-line fully functional evaluation of IdeaJam or LinkJam. Evaluations are secure and can be provisioned on our servers quickly. If you are interested in an evaluation, please fill out our "Request Information" form on the Elguji website and somebody will contact you. And if you have not yet seen our product tour videos be sure and have a look. You can find the IdeaJam Product Tour here and the LinkJam Product Tour here.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 07:29:00 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Earlier today the Elguji development team released the Fall '08 versions of IdeaJam and IdeaJam Express. Fall '08 includes the following new features:

• iPhone and iPod Touch support
• Multi-word tags
• Added ability to sort and filter ideas on a user's profile
• LinkJam integration
• Added "Favorite Ideas" function
• Added new administration view for user profiles to allow easy deletion of user profile documents
• Users can now choose which language labels should be displayed. The default is still controlled from the Control Panel, but now users have the ability to choose from other languages you may choose to offer by editing their Profile.
• Added choice for users to receive emails when a comment is added to an idea that they have commented on
• Added new RSS feed for favorite ideas, which monitors the favorite ideas and any comments added to them
• Added support for up to five attachments on an idea including non image based files (.doc, .pdf etc.)
• Added "Internal Description" field to Idea form in the Notes client
• Added "Copy as Document Link" action to the Idea and Comment forms
• Changed Control Panel save process to allow non database Managers to update the ACL Roles for IdeaSpaces

The upgrade from the IdeaJam Summer '08 takes about 5 minutes and is available to all IdeaJam and IdeaJam Express customers.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 11:19:55 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

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One of our customers will soon be testing the Fall '08 release of IdeaJam which includes the ability to attach multiple files to an idea. Not only graphical images but Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Symphony and PDF documents or any type of file for that matter. With this feature they will be using IdeaJam as a tool for their corporate Board of Directors to solicit feedback through voting and comments on meeting agenda items and other items/issues. Cool stuff

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:33:23 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

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IdeaJam V1.2 (and IdeaJam.net) now allow users to change their password.



Additionally users can now see ideas that they have not yet voted for ("unvoted") on an IdeaSpace by IdeaSpace basis.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:24:57 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

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On Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 V1.2 of IdeaJam will be available for download to all customers with maintenance and support agreements. An updated "Installation, Setup and Customization Guide" will also be available.

New Features

Added configuration to control the number of items in What's Hot on the sidebar

Added configuration to control Statistics, Tags, Unvoted and My Profile in the header menu

Added LinkJam integration

Improved uniqueness of statistics chart names for customers running multiple instances of IdeaJam

Added configuration to control where temporary files for statistics get saved (requires edit and save of control panel document)

Added validation to force Description to be added to a new idea

Added Change Password button to user profile

Added filtering of unvoted ideas by IdeaSpace

Bug Fixes

Fixed movement of votes when clicking the show votes link (requires updated Language document)

Fixed a potential bug that can occur when generating charts for a new IdeaJam site

Fixed missing RSS icons in Completed, Rejected, Withdrawn views

Fixed broken screenshot images in By IdeaSpace views

Improved view heading consistency across the application

Fixed suggested similar ideas for plain text version of idea form

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:13:01 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Sherpa Software a leader in email management tools for IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft's Exchange Server has recently purchased Elguji's IdeaJam software. Sherpa will use IdeaJam to solicit ideas on how they can improve their products.

I can't even begin to explain how simple this was to configure and get running.  Our site was ready to go in honestly a matter of minutes.  It's well designed and thought-out, plus it's a Notes database.  Even some of our Microsoft guys have been impressed with the power of Domino.  Now agreeing on some of the wording and fine-tuning of the site will take some time but the initial setup and ease of ongoing changes will make this an absolute breeze.

--Denny Russell, Sherpa Software

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New Features Added

• Changed votes by date and week charts to only count Promotes and Demotes (ignoring No Opinions)
• Made the display of Header Stats configurable in the Control Panel

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in Idea Linking when there are more than 1000 ideas
• Fixed display of labels in Profile when viewing in read mode
• Fixed potential XSS attack on Idea and Profile screens
• Fixed potential hacker vulnerability that allowed the insertion of a non-existant IdeaSpace via the Idea form

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 01:31:39 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Seventy eight of your ideas have now been completed and implemented in the shipping version of IdeaJam (V1.1.3). Many of these features have also been included in soon to be released LinkJam. It's pretty cool that we have been able to use the IdeaJam system to build and shape new versions of IdeaJam. We are now working on some customer success stories where you will be able learn how our customers are using IdeaJam to improve their products and services by becoming part of the conversation and willing to innovate based on it.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 01:17:41 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

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It's always good when we can mark an idea as complete. Maureen commented on this idea today that the feature request has been added to the Designer 8.5 client. So keep the ideas coming, the developers are watching.

Posted by Matt White At 11:45:47 AM Location London | Permalink | Comments (0)